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Liberal regressive political madness is very real. Mask mandate and containment has created an army of malfunctioning individuals who look, act, speak and think alike as if controlled by an unseen force. The man or woman behind the curtain.
#2
The extracts I read seem pretty much dead on for the style and direction of the LSD controlled government currently holding power.
In short the Flower Power Generation associated with Liberalism has been adulterated and power hungry. It has already adopted many of the totalitarian political processes needed to control a societies knowledge, speech and rights.
#3
In future history, if its honest, the impact of the Magic Kenyan and the massive salting of government/academia/media during his 8 years will be seen as a turning point in the arc of American political behavior. Woke-Think is the visible product of it, but especially the deeper animus concepts of America as hyper-racist, "toxic" masculinity, transgender/psychosis, climate insanity against fossil fuels with magic thinking of the "green" replacement disregarding nuclear, fiscal profligacy, massive corruption, selective criminal enforcement, regulatory Imperialism and globalism as the virtuous end-state for mankind.
This cannot end well...
[Garowe] It's now evident that the US will be dispatched at least 500 soldiers to Somalia in the coming days, just over a year after their unceremonious exit, which was occasioned by a strategy to reduce expenses incurred on troops abroad.
Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... 's administration was keen to have the soldiers back to the country, following an outcry from senior government and opposition politicians in Somalia besides strong backing from the Senate and Pentagon, which had initially opposed withdrawal plans.
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#1 Keep the narrow chokepoint of Bab el-Mandeb, leading to or from the Suez Canal, semi-safe. So that about 9.7% of the US consumed OIL & 3rd World produced goods can flow.
#2 Mid-Terms and the badly needed backdoor Big $$$$$ donations.
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05/31/2022 16:10 Comments ||
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Commuting to war can be a drag. What if we set up FOBs in Minneapolis and Fort Wayne? Would we be more effective at keeping a large number of Somalis safe? We’ve been trying to restore order in Somalia since HW Bush was president. If someone can propose a coherent plan for restoring order in Somalia or Haiti, I am all ears. It looks like the best recipe is to install a brutal regime. I guess that’s where we ended up by default in Afghanistan. If this is some kind of QRF to help out “allies,” I can see that. If we are running guns to Syria again that is not OK.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
05/31/2022 16:46 Comments ||
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Borislav Agadzhanov
[REGNUM] After the end of hostilities in Tbilisi, armed clashes moved to the provinces. In early January 1992, a fierce battle took place between the "Zviadists" and their opponents near the city of Mtskheta, which led to a large number of dead and wounded. On January 11, a large detachment, assembled from supporters of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who fled from Tbilisi to Armenia, crossed the Armenian-Georgian border and entered the territory of Georgia, but was surrounded and then defeated. A significant part of the "Zviadists" was captured.
#4
Bless you, Palmerston. Though badanov is a tank man, by preference, which explains much. ;-)
Omineling Forkbeard1962, you mean peddling, trying to sell things like a peddler on the street with his little cart full of ribbons and tin pots and pans.
#5
In grade school, a friend pointed out a picture in a history book with the caption A dried blini peddler. He asked, reasonably enough, did dried refer to the blinis or the peddler.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Written by a Russian militiaman, resident of Rostov, Russia, who served with the separatists in Donetsk 2014-2015. Call sign "Shakespeare." From his Facebook page: By Pavel Kukhmirov
[Sevastopol] Despite the fact that the negotiation process (for better or for worse) has finally come to naught, the forces counting on a diplomatic settlement remain in our society, including at the intra-elite level.
How good such an outcome would be in principle - I will not argue. But how is it even possible? Under what circumstances is it possible to update the process, as a variant of the development of events?
There can be two prerequisites for this (the possibility is actualized both in the presence of one, and both at once).
First: a large-scale military defeat of one of the parties. Russia or Ukraine - it's not so important here.
Second: a massive political change in the US. At the elite level.
The current situation in the theater of operations can be described as a positional war. Russia and Ukraine collect reserves and throw them into battle, carry out attacking and counterattacking actions, suffer losses in manpower and equipment.
The fact that Ukraine's losses are many times greater does not matter in this case. This is a positional war without much change in the picture. Russia and Ukraine still have a lot of resources to continue in the same spirit.
The situation is in equilibrium, in which both sides do not seek a settlement. But if the picture changes, this will change too.
For example, if there is a big victory for Russia in the Donbass arc, such as the capture of the Kramatorsk-Slavic agglomeration or Nikolaev/Zaporozhye/Kharkov, or, conversely, a serious counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the capture of, for example, Kherson (which is also possible, we like it or no) - in this case, opportunities for diplomacy may open up.
The collapse of the Ukrainian Donbass front will enable the allied forces of Russia and the People's Republics to significantly and, most importantly, rapidly advance in the southern regions of Ukraine and create a threat to Nikolaev and Odessa.
In turn, the capture of Kherson by the Kyiv regime will raise the fundamental question of a land corridor to Crimea, and of Crimea itself.
In both situations, external players will again begin to actively intervene, and at the same time, internal opposition groups will become more active both in Kyiv and in Moscow.
The changing domestic political landscape in the US is also a powerful factor that could potentially change the level of support for the Kyiv regime from Washington.
And we can not say that such an option is unbelievable.
In November, the United States will hold elections to both houses of Congress. At the moment, the Democrats have control over both chambers, but rather shaky. The Senate is 50 to 48 in favor of the Republicans, plus 2 for independent Democrats, but Vice President Kamala Harris has a decisive vote in a tie vote, and thus the Democrats still control the upper house.
The House of Representatives has a direct majority of Democrats. But the fall in the ratings of Biden and the Democratic Party as a whole is already clearly leading to a loss of control over Congress in both chambers.
Powerful problems in the US economy (first of all, rising fuel prices) have given the Ukrainian issue special significance - now this is almost the only area where Biden can demonstrate the power of the United States, tritely trying to distract voters from internal problems.
But the loss of Congress could drastically reduce NATO's pressure on the Ukrainian direction.
Theoretically, this could loosen the American leash and allow European countries to try to find a diplomatic solution.
The Republicans will definitely begin to curtail support for the Armed Forces at the expense of the US budget, publicly burying Biden's policies with a clear eye on the US presidency in 2024. And even impeachment - this can also be.
Although, in principle, Biden can also give the go-ahead to look for a diplomatic solution, if the Russian armed forces make a decisive turn in the hostilities and begin a rapid advance.
After all, they also always loved to play the role of "peacekeepers".
Actually, this is the schedule. I note that there is nothing wrong with the diplomatic settlement itself. The only question is the conditions. And they will simply depend on how things turn out at the front. And no matter how the negotiations go (if they resume again), this will still remain primary.
#1
First: a large-scale military defeat of one of the parties. Russia or Ukraine -
This condition is already been met: the major defeat was at Mariupol, several weeks ago. That turned the tide. Russia will certainly win the war.
Second: a massive political change in the US. At the elite level.
I disagree. The change need NOT be "massive." The central change has already happened within the Intelligence Community, as it is called -- they were the ones behind the New York Times editorial and they were the ones who pushed Kissinger to put forth his peace arguments at Davos.
Arguably, the Intelligence Community (or so-called 'Deep State') can drive policy toward a negotiated solution. In any case Biden is a walking corpse. He is irrelevant.
#2
Too bad, a lot of Republicans seem to be as enthusiastic about this war as Biden.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
05/31/2022 12:19 Comments ||
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#3
General Milley's no longer enthusiastic about the war.
Here's what Milley said on Fox yesterday:
"A negotiated outcome is a logical choice, but both sides have to come to that conclusion on their own. ... There's always a possibility of escalation. And we have to closely manage the escalation... and prevent this thing from expanding into something much more horrific than it already is."
[ScarcityNews] David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations’ (UN) World Food Program (WFP), recently said that the global food crisis has gotten so bad that the WFP has had no choice but to take food aid from countries with already limited resources to provide for those that are on the brink of famine.
Beasley made these remarks at a meeting with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, following a two-day visit to Yemen, which is currently spiraling into a catastrophe that the WFP’s own resources are unable to deal with as funding dries up.
“We have no choice but to take food from the hungry to feed the starving and, unless we receive immediate funding, in a few weeks we risk not even being able to feed the starving,” said Beasley. “This will be hell on earth.”
#2
I have a novel idea, ask all those rich middle eastern countries to fund your bullshit.
Posted by: Chris ||
05/31/2022 16:09 Comments ||
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#3
So the Globalists provoke a war, demand we fund a response to the aggression, demand we fund the mitigation of the war they instigated, and advise us to take economic action against the aggressor which cripples our economy when coupled with their globalist green initiatives. When it’s over, they will guilt us into repairing the damage caused by the weapons that they demanded that we introduce into the conflict. We would have a better outcome if we gave 100 random teenagers control of worldwide policy.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
05/31/2022 16:56 Comments ||
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#4
Arabs, Islamists, Muslim Supremacists and Commies are perfectly capable of starving their populaces. We don't have to help
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/31/2022 19:23 Comments ||
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[NBCNews] Amid a rolling series of calamities and sinking approval ratings, the president’s feeling lately is that he just can’t catch a break — and that angst is rippling through his party.
Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.
Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign, people close to the president say.
Crises have piled up in ways that have at times made the Biden White House look flat-footed: record inflation, high gas prices, a rise in Covid case numbers — and now a Texas school massacre that is one more horrific reminder that he has been unable to get Congress to pass legislation to curb gun violence. Democratic leaders are at a loss about how he can revive his prospects by November, when midterm elections may cost his party control of Congress.
[Townhall] It's Kurt
Look around and all you see is failure.
A bunch of kids are being murdered by some semi-human, so what do you do? Draw your weapon and put him down or die trying? Or do you sit there, doing nothing?
The same government we’re supposed to give up our guns to because they have it all under control chose Option B. It chose failure.
Tell me more about how the real problem is that we have the capacity to defend ourselves. When all you have is seconds, the cops are minutes an hour away
But the real problem, to our enemies, is not that murderers murder. The real problem, to our enemies, is the very fact that we can defend ourselves. The objective of our trash elite is not to have a country that runs well, where people are secure, and where rights are respected. The objective is to rule. And if a bunch of kids die for that, they’re fine with it. They can live with failure, but not accountability.
The clusterfark in Uvalde is just a symptom of a much bigger pathology. It is a symbol of the failure of every institution in our society. And the solution is never to revamp the institutions and eject the parasites heading them. It’s always — always — to take power from us and give it to the people who screwed up in the first place.
Show of hands — who was shocked to hear that this creep was on law enforcement’s radar before his killing spree?
I see a distinct lack of hands.
But the failure is not limited to being unable to stop murderers. It’s not even the only failure involving schools. The schools are churning out a generation of quasi-literates and have been turned into a Grindr for perverted weirdos to use for grooming their prey. We got a good view of the failure during another epic failure, the COVID response.
This is systemic.
Everything is failing.
Go try to get baby formula.
See if you can afford gas. Hell, roll up to a Mickey D’s drive-thru and try to roll away with lunch for four under $30. nice try
The courts don’t work, the Congress doesn’t work, and our alleged president is a borderline clinical moron who is lying when he’s not merely stupid. This human sex toy got up at Annapolis and told the Naval Academy grads that he had been accepted there. It was a lie — of course, he’s senile so maybe he believed it — and the regime media skipped over it like they skip over everything else that offends the official narrative.
Failure, failure, failure.
What is one institution that works? Just one.
Our military? Oh please. Just last week the military demonstrated its real priorities when it released a list of proposed new names for various forts and bases that are currently labeled with insufficiently PC monikers. Now, here’s a meaningful list challenge for them: Provide a list of names of real wars these people have won since 1991.
Here it is: ___________________________.
We’re getting tired of nothing but disasters, debacles, and decline. And that’s when things get dangerous. What cannot go on will not go on, and we Americans are not going accept muddling through forever, lurching from crisis to crisis created by our garbage ruling class and that cannot be solved by our garbage ruling class. Jimmy Carter was like that — President Peanut tried to tell us to embrace the suck. We told him to suck on his malaise. We turned to Ronald Reagan, and Carter was in a funk for forty years until Grandpa Badfinger finally relieved him of the title of "Worst President of the Last Century."
We will turn to someone, because this is unsustainable. The question is "Who?" And that is not precisely a question of individuals. It might be Trump, it might be DeSantis, it might be someone else. The question is what kind of person. Will it be a positive American leader in the vein of a Ronald Reagan, or will it be an American Caesar?
I write about the authoritarian temptation in my upcoming nonfiction book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America:
"His rise would come as the result of a backlash against the left, and it would be propelled by a sense that the institutions, left to their own devices, would frustrate the true intent of the Framers and the people. He would call himself the restorer of American democracy (which sounds better to American ears than "restorer of the Republic" even if not technically correct). He would observe the rituals and symbols of the old United States, yet his reign would be distinguished by the unbridled use of his power. He would ignore the norms and unofficial rules of American politics that have so far restrained the conservatives but, to their mind, not the left. Checks and balances? Nah, it’s an emergency. We’ll get back to having those later.
And later never comes. His supporters would see him as cutting through the obstacles to enact the necessary reforms to restore America to greatness. His opponents would call him an authoritarian. And they might have a point."
The danger of systemic institutional failure is not merely the damage from the fallout, though as we saw in Uvalde, it can be monstrously horrific. The danger is that the failure is so pervasive and the ruling caste behind it so committed to retaining its own power at the expense of anything else that people may confuse this perversion of our constitutional system with the real thing and simply give up on the Founder’s vision. They might embrace a strongman who is empowered sufficiently to break the hold of our garbage ruling class — at the price of our republic. The failure we are seeing is so complete, so comprehensive, that maybe Americans will come to think that this harsh cure is not worse than the disease. But, of course, it will be. Maybe not with the first dictator, or the second, but it will. Augustus was okay, unless you crossed him. But a Caligula is eventually going to come along.
These clowns risk failing their way into an even bigger nightmare. So we have to stop them, because they are too corrupt and stupid to stop themselves.
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[Consortium News] As the war becomes less popular and it takes its toll, an electoral disaster looms ahead in 2022 and 2024 for Biden and the Democratic Party, for which the Times serves as a mouthpiece, writes John Walsh.
On May 11 The New York Times ran an article documenting that all was not going well for the U.S. in Ukraine, and a companion opinion piece hinting that a shift in direction might be in order.
Then on May 19, the editorial board, the full Magisterium of the Times, moved from hints to a clarion call for a change in direction, declaring that "total victory" over Russia is not possible and that Ukraine will have to negotiate a peace in a way that reflects a "realistic assessment" and the "limits" of U.S. commitment.
The Times serves as one the main shapers of public opinion for the elite and so its pronouncements are not to be taken lightly.
US LIMITS
The editorial contains the following key passages:
"In March, this board argued that the message from the United States and its allies to Ukrainians and Russians alike must be: No matter how long it takes, Ukraine will be free. ..."
"That goal cannot shift, but in the end, it is still not in America’s best interest to plunge into an all-out war with Russia, even if a negotiated peace may require Ukraine to make some hard decisions."
And, to ensure that there is no ambiguity, it went on:
"A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal. ... Russia remains too strong..."
The, to make certain that President Joe Biden and the Ukrainians understand what they should do, it adds:
"... Mr. Biden should also make clear to President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people that there is a limit to how far the United States and NATO will go to confront Russia, and limits to the arms, money and political support they can muster. It is imperative that the Ukrainian government’s decisions be based on a realistic assessment of its means and how much more destruction Ukraine can sustain."
As Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky read those words, he must surely have begun to sweat. The voice of his masters was telling him that he and Ukraine will have to make some sacrifices for the U.S. to save face. As he contemplates his options, his thoughts must surely run back to February 2014, and the U.S.-backed Maidan coup that culminated in the hasty exit of President Viktor Yanukovych from his office, his country and almost from this earth.
Alexander Mercouris of The Duran explains the shift in Western media reporting:.... Video and more at the link
At the bottom of the article at the link it notes that it was originally published at the Paleocon site Antiwar.com. We’ve had their articles here from time to time — they tend to be controversial.
#1
Not just the New York Times. Virtually every single American and British media outlet has shifted from embarrassing jingoism to cold hard pragmatism -- recognizing that Russia is winning and trading territory for peace will be essential -- during the last 2-3 days.
Another poster gave a roundup yesterday of the many backflips in the formerly (hilariously) compliant US/UK press. Here are some of them:
Ukraine Is in Worse Shape than You Think - Time Magazine
Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for U.S. arms - the Washington Post
Russian Wins in Eastern Ukraine Spark Debate Over Course of War - Bloomberg
Russia’s ‘cauldron’ tactic may be tipping Donbas battle in its favour - Guardian
Shrapnel in the forests and shells from the sky: ‘I’ve never seen such hell.’ - New York Times
Boris Johnson warns Russia is 'chewing through ground' in eastern Ukraine as he urges more support for Kyiv forces - The Daily Mail
#4
"...the United States has helped turn this tragic, local and ambiguous conflict into a potential world conflagration. By misunderstanding the war’s logic, [French presidential advisor Henri] Guaino argues, the West, led by the Biden administration, is giving the conflict a momentum that may be impossible to stop. ...
"One can argue about Russian claims to Crimea, but Russians take them seriously. Hundreds of thousands of Russian and Soviet fighters died defending the Crimean city of Sevastopol from European forces during two sieges — one during the Crimean War and one during World War II. In recent years, Russian control of Crimea has seemed to provide a stable regional arrangement: Russia’s European neighbors, at least, have let sleeping dogs lie.
But the United States never accepted the arrangement. On Nov. 10, 2021, the United States and Ukraine signed a “charter on strategic partnership” that called for Ukraine to join NATO, condemned “ongoing Russian aggression” and affirmed an “unwavering commitment” to the reintegration of Crimea into Ukraine.
That charter “convinced Russia that it must attack or be attacked,” Mr. Guaino wrote. “It is the ineluctable process of 1914 in all its terrifying purity.”
#5
Perpetual leftist idiot Tom Freidman has a column out today (I won't link to it) saying that Kissinger is wrong on Ukraine. That's pretty much all I need to hear to decide Kissinger is exactly right.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
05/31/2022 14:01 Comments ||
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#6
I think the tipping point in the US was Rand Paul’s protest. Many Americans because less enthusiastic when they discovered there would be no general ledger for the dollar pipeline. This is like a Clinton Global Initiative on steroids with missiles.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
05/31/2022 16:12 Comments ||
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^ Thanks to this bill, the American people are on the hook to fund all the operations of the entireUkrainian government. A notoriously corrupt regime that never had any oversight or scrutiny to begin with.
Administered by Biden and his Freakshow -- that would be the same Joe Biden who boasted about forcing the Ukrainian regime to fire their prosecutor who was looking into his son's illicit dealings with a criminal enterprise.
This isn't Clinton Global Initiative, this is the Mother of All Boondoggles. Iraq and Afghanistan combined, on an accelerated timeline so that Hunter, Jimmy and The Big Guy can grab their loot while they're all still alive and in power.
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
05/31/2022 16:31 Comments ||
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Thanks to this bill, the American people are on the hook to fund all the operations of the entireUkrainian government.
That is what's known as a giant fucking lie. Anything Oye Como Va says from now on should be treated as such. Watch the switch to a new lying nym
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/31/2022 19:27 Comments ||
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The bill "also provides for $6 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funding, which can be used to buy weapons directly from contractors and then provide those weapons to Ukraine.
"On the surface, this would appear to be simply about weapons. However, buriedin this funding is up to a billion dollars earmarked to pay the salaries and pensions of Ukrainian government workers and soldiers.
🤡
This is just the beginning, folks. Remember Karzai? Remember SIGAR's report?
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
05/31/2022 21:00 Comments ||
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"• $8.766 billion for the Economic Support Fund to respond to emergent needs in Ukraine, provide needed budget support to assist with Ukraine’s continuity of government, and counter human trafficking. Includes $760 million to prevent and respond to global food insecurity.
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
05/31/2022 21:12 Comments ||
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#10 Giant fucking ... boondoggle, agreed.
$8.96 Billion, suckers!
🤡 Read it and weep:
US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ADDITIONAL UKRAINE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022
From Title V:
"• $8.766 billion for the Economic Support Fund to respond to emergent needs in Ukraine, provide needed budget support to assist with Ukraine’s continuity of government, and counter human trafficking. Includes $760 million to prevent and respond to global food insecurity.
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
05/31/2022 21:14 Comments ||
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Don't worry. Plenty of graft to come. Did you like "Build Back Better"? Wasn't Iraq Reconstruction a blast?
How about $1 TRILLION for "Build a Greener Denser Carbon-Neutral Ukraine"?
"We can also look at other measures and similar efforts that were done in the past. For example, what was the cost of reconstructing Iraq or Afghanistan? If you look at the size of these countries, the level of damage, and scale it to the Ukrainian case, you come to somewhere between $500 billion, maybe $1 trillion."
How should Ukraine rebuild?
Although Russia's invasion has caused massive damage, some experts also see reconstruction as a once-in-a-generation chance to modernize Ukraine.
Gorodnichenko believes the country's newly rebuilt cities should be carbon-neutral and dense, with much needed upgrades to housing and public transport.
Are we having fun yet??
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
05/31/2022 21:39 Comments ||
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#13
Screwed up HTML fixed in #10 so it wasn’t breaking the Burg, though you fixed it nicely in the next comment, Oye Como Va.
A billion dollars here, a billion more there, eventually you’re talking real money. Seriously, the way the current administration is throwing money around in trillion dollar amounts, any specific item isn’t worth getting upset over.
#14
^ No offense but that's a really mindless comment. They are indeed "worried about trillions." In fact Biden is meeting with Jay Powell to pressure him to REDUCE a trillion or more in money supply now.
Rand Paul nailed it: it's utterly insane to be slamming the brakes on credit and money supply via the Fed's shock therapy interest rate hikes while they're contemplating the exact opposite, in the form of sending a trillion dollars overseas for yet another idiotic intervention + kleptopalooza
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
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No, it's defensive. A trillion for defending "freedom and democracy" ... by paying for Zelensky & Co's offshore accounts salaries and pensions.
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
05/31/2022 22:04 Comments ||
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#17
Biden is meeting with Jay Powell to pressure him to REDUCE a trillion or more in money supply now.
Let me unpack my statement a bit: The issue, as I see it, is endlessly increasing government spending on anything and everything. Until that drive to spend is stopped, fixing this or that particular item will make no difference whatsoever.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NBCNews] Amid a rolling series of calamities and sinking approval ratings, the president’s feeling lately is that he just can’t catch a break — and that angst is rippling through his party.
[Consortium News] As the war becomes less popular and it takes its toll, an electoral disaster looms ahead in 2022 and 2024 for Biden and the Democratic Party, for which the Times serves as a mouthpiece, writes John Walsh.
